Lecture 1: Welcome!
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Welcome!
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Take-up Course Outline
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Course and Instructor Websites
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Brainstorm ‘Ethics/Morality’
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What We’ll Do
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Homework
Take-up Course Outline
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Office hours
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Required texts
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Course requirements
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Policy on plagiarism and cheating
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Grade conversion and grade
calculation
Course and Instructor Websites
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Course Website:
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Instructor Website:
Brainstorm ‘Ethics/Morality’
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First thing that comes to mind
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No right or wrong answer
What We’ll Do
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Some things we won’t do
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Some things we will do
Approaches to Ethics
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What is descriptive ethics?
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What is normative ethics?
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What is meta-ethics?
Homework
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Think about these questions:
(1) What does it mean to say that a moral judgment is objectively valid?
(2) Are moral judgments objectively valid?
(3) What does it mean to say that a scientific judgment is objectively
valid?
(4) Are scientific judgments objectively valid?
(5) Mathematical truths do not appear to vary from place to place, but
etiquette does. Are moral claims more like claims in mathematics or like those
belonging to etiquette?